The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
MRS. cLRvELANp,s HuMoR.
Pleasant Gossip About the Lady of the
White House.
from the Nelo York Herald.

White House.
from the Neio York Herald.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The following
paragraph is now going the rounds;
And now comes q Miss Couzens, who
writes verses and insists that President
Cleveland's marriage resulted from poem
she wrote advising such a step. But the
public is sceptical. Let her try it on
David B. Hill, and stand or fall by the OUT
Gomez
Miss Couzens is Miss Phebe, who was made
United States Marshal in st. Louis by the
authority given to Justice Miller, the va
cancy being caused by the death of Miss
Couzens' father last summer
The lame artist, Miss Marion Foster, has
also claimed shat it was on account of O por-
trait she painted of him that the President
began seriously to think of marriage, though
in what the magic charm consisted she has
not explained fully.
Mrs Cleveland has a keen sense of humor
and has, SAYS one who has talked with her
several times, been greatly amused at the
many different theories of which she has
been told as to who or what suggested to the
President the idea of marrying. Everybody
seems to think it could not have originated
within himself, as it is so unusual for one
who has lived over forty-five years bache-
Tor to think of marriage without some
strong influence being brought to bear upon
him in that direction.
In this connection Mrs. Cleveland has
merrily told of the equivocal speech a lady
friend of hers made when a conversation
was in progress on this subject, who said, 81
think it was Miss Folsom herself who sug-
gestedit."
"Of course, )" said the lady to whom Mrs
Cleveland laughingly mentioned this, ''she
meant that the great attractions of Miss Fol-
som naturally suggested to the President
the desire to marry her,"
81 suppose, as she was my friend,n an
swered Mrs. Cleveland, with twinkllng eyes,
that was what she meant, but it sounded
odd"
ABOVE ALL CRITICISM.
Says lady who Travelled much in this
country last summer:
81 was more than once asked by ladies as
well as by gentlemen during my travels
who had never met Mrs. Cleveland or been
in Washington since she has presided in the
White H use how it is that they had never
read or heard an adverse criticism of her
Can it be possible, they ask, that she always
does the right thing and never hurts any
ones feelingsp
"'She is, so young they continue, and has
bad so little experience in life, it seems mar
to antagonize any one or provoke unkind
remarks.
cit does seem almost impossible l an
swered, but it is true and | have never
known of a similar instance in the case of
mano or woman since have lived in Wash
ington. Usually, the fact of a person of
either sex being in a high position and
having youth and good looks is enough
to provoke envy and so give rise to spite
fnI If wholly n1n1a
served
But Mrs. Cleveland seems to have been
given by some good fairy at her birth the
wonderful gift of being able to disarm envy,
hatred, malice, and all observation-disclosures, and
no one appears to feel disposed to find fault
with her.
HER PLEASANT CONVERSATION.
The wife of prominent naval officer,
whose good fortune it has been to meet
ladies at the courts of Europe, says:
1T has equally been my good fortune to
have had several times opportunity to talk
with Mrs. Cleveland when there was but
one other present She talks right along
like any other young lady, with no self-con-
seriousness or appearance of being on her
guard, far less of talking for effect, yet she
never said anything that the most evil dis
posed person could have repeated to her dis
advantage Her replies are always quick
in answer to the most unexpected remarks,
yet always appropriate.
Gone evening / CHANGED to speak with her
about the late Senatar Logan's widow and
Mrs. Morrison, the wife of the ex-Congress-
man from Illinois, and said how different
the two ladies were, and that each in a very
different way had been great assistance to
her husband IN his political career, though
Mrs. Morrison was rarely seen in public,
while Mrs Logan during her husbands life
was constantly in society.
"Mrs. Cleveland said: 4 suppose each
helped her husband in the way he most need
ed help ] think it is so nice for woman to
be able to help her husband in the way he
most needs it,
'She spoke as if this was something about
which she had often thought and there was
an earnestness in her tone as she spoke the
last sentence and an expression in her face
which showed that her ambition--perhaps
her only one-lay in that direction. Except
that she seems to have no vanity she would
have learned before this time that her goal
was reached.
NOT A POLITICIAN.
"Mrs Cleveland seldom if ever discusses
politics, and you would never know if you
heard her talk, without knowing who she
was, whether her preference were for
people of any political party because of
their politics, for she speaks equally kindly
of oil